Guest Commentary

The heart of the new immigration law is to expand the use of the online federal e-verify requirements for businesses with 11 or more workers.

As a political accomplishment, one can only stand in awe of the recent Republican sweep of Georgia elective offices. Republicans now occupy all of the state’s major elected leadership positions, and for the foreseeable future the state’s key political battleground…

A 50-years-ago item in the Columbus newspaper noted that in May 1960 the Southern Baptist Convention adopted a resolution urging its members to oppose the nomination of a Catholic for U.S. President. At the time, John F. Kennedy was expected…

The headline in the newspaper had to be wrong. It read “Obama Appears Open to Value Added Tax.” Could the President really be considering a value added tax or VAT, as it is usually referred to? Perhaps, like most Americans,…

Now into the third year of what is being called The Great Recession, the United States still has the largest economy in the world and its people are better off on the whole than the people of any other nation.…

The Obama Administration is beginning to look more like the third George W. Bush term. You think not? Well, look at the facts and forget the frenzied end-of-the world-as-we-know-it outbursts directed at Obama by people who just don’t like him…

The Atlanta Journal’s motto used to be, “Covers Dixie Like the Dew.” But the dew is very light today. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, or AJC, barely covers its own county. Its circulation dropped from 400,000 in 2005 to 330,000 in 2009,…